Labor Party of Argentina

The Labor Party (PL) was a Peronist political party in Argentina that was active from 1945 to 1947. The party was founded by Peronist labor union leaders and was built up around the unions. The party had little structure of its own, and its popularity was based mostly on its identification with party leader Juan Peron. In February 1946, the party won a majority in both chambers of the parliament, and the party called for nationalizations, social welfare, women's suffrage, and land reform. In 1947, the parties supportive of Peron merged into the new Justicialist Party.